I just saw someone do this on instagram and thought it would be so much fun for PB!

Share with us your 7 Deadly Sin book choices:

1. Lust (or books you picked up just because of the cover)
2. Pride (or difficult book you’ve read)
3. Gluttony (or books you’ve read more than once)
4. Sloth (or the book that’s been on your TBR the longest)
5. Greed (or books you’ve read own multiple copies of)
6. Wrath (or books that you despise)
7. Envy (or books you want to live in)

I’ll go first. Mine are:

1. Lust - sadly, I do this a lot 🫣 I love to judge a book by its cover…Heart the Lover, When I Open the Shop, Tom Lake, How to Loiter in a Turf War to name just a few
2. Pride - The Beguilled was a tough read. So was The Tin Drum. I also loved One Hundred Years of Solitude but found it a challenging read.
3. Gluttony - haven’t done much rereading since I was a child so probably Alanna: The First Adventure would be my most reread
4. Sloth - The Count of Monte Cristo has been on the list since forever
5. Greed - I don’t have more than one copy of any book! I just don’t know why you’d need/want that 😂😂
6. Wrath - I thought Rodham was such a creepy book to have written about real and still alive people. Especially, putting words and thoughts into Hilary’s mouth about such sexualised moments and passing the whole thing off as supportive of her and feminist in general? I felt yucky reading it.
7. Envy - probably any cosy magical place…Emily Wilde’s academic magic adventures seem like a bit of me 😊

If you could only read from one genre ever again in your life, what would it be?

Bonus if you rec a book in that genre.

For anyone interested:

Apocalyptic fiction - 1 Classics - 1 Domestic/Literary Fiction - 4 Fantasy - 20 History - 2 Historical fiction - 1 Horror - 9 Magical realism - 1 Mystery - 3 Nonfiction - 3 Romance - 5 Romantasy - 1 Sci-fi - 1 Speculative fiction - 7 YA - 1

In no way is this meant to shame anyone for the length or depth of their posts, as the point of them is to spark conversation and share your thoughts, but has anyone noticed that forum posts have been getting incredibly vague and short? I think I stumble across at least a dozen posts with less than ten words and zero context every day, and I’m just curious if this is limited to certain books or if it’s become a widespread thing.

Has anyone gotten a color e-reader/e-paper tablet? I already have some kindles, but I'd really like a color e-reader for manga, webtoons, etc that isn't locked into an ecosystem. I'm between the boox go color 7 gen 2, bigme 751c color e-paper, and the bigme b7 color e-paper 🤔.

I'm leaning more towards the e-paper tablets because of the high refresh rate, but I'd love to know what issues, if any, everyone has run in to if you have any of these.

Thank you!

To paint the picture: It's a rainy, semi warm day, you have your favorite comfy clothes on, a clear calendar, and your current read. All that's left is the beverage. Tea or Coffee?

To paint the picture: You're at the beach, sun is shining, seagulls are in the air, toes in the sand, and your last read. It's time for a nice summer snack. A bag of chips or fresh fruit?

To paint the picture: It's late at night, partners and creatures deep asleep, just you and your next planned read. You find you stomach rumbling for something sweet. Chocolate chip cookies or Ice cream?

Just a fun, small post since I don't have any grand ideas today (mental fatigue is real).

Stay creepy lovelies, Crow

Edit: I'm bouncing between work and PB, so if I miss your comment, I'm sorry and thank you for being here!

Im not usually a massive fan of books that are turned into tv shows/movies but has anyone got a book that they actually want to be turned into one? Im currently reading Thats not my name and I feel like it would be so good as a series if it was done right!

What are your favorite books (fiction or non-fiction) set in space? 🪐

With the Artemis II mission my love for astronomy has reached whole new levels. I already made 2 lists ("Welcome to Outerspace" with non-fiction and "First Contact SciFi" ) a while ago but I am always looking for more recommendations. What are your favorite scifi and astronomy books? 👽🌍

My favorite astronomy nonfiction is "Black Matter and the Dinosaurs" by Lisa Randall. A more beginner-friendly recommendation would be "Starry Messenger" by Neil deGrasse Tyson. And fictional? "Our long way to a small angry planet" by Becky Chambers of course. I did like the ideas and science in "Three Body Problem" but didn't love the writing (or maybe translation), and have taken issue with the sexism and some other controversial stuff surrounding the author. My next spacey reads are probably going to be "Fire and Ice: The Volcanoes of the Solar System" by Natalie Starkey and "Meru" by S.B. Divya 🚀

Now, please, drown me in your recs! 🫶👾

How do you feel about downvotes? Have you ever downvoted someone’s post? I’ve just discovered this feature (someone downvoted a post I made on a book forum), and I felt kind of bad 🙈

How many paused books do you guys have? And will you get back to them? I use it as a soft DNF, knowing i'll eventually read it (it might be a year, oops) but sometimes I do DNF eventually. Would love to know your thoughts :)

Hi, guys! 😁😁 Hope everyone's doing well, but I just had a question. Why do we not have timestamps? I tried looking for it in the posts to help new users but couldn't find it, but I'm not very good at looking soo...🫠. I was just wondering?